Parachute
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town in Garfield County, Colorado, United States
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Vinony files it under 1908 establishments in Colorado, Populated places in the United States established in 1908 and Towns in Colorado.
Vinony links it to 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Garfield County
- Incorporated
- 1908-04-01, as the Town of Grand Valley
- Type
- Home rule municipality
- Total
- 1.87 sq mi (4.85 km )
- Land
- 1.81 sq mi (4.68 km )
- Water
- 0.066 sq mi (0.17 km )
- Elevation
- 5,089 ft (1,551 m)
- Density
- 769/sq mi (297/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-6 ( MDT )
- Zip codes
- 81635, 81636 ( PO Box )
- Fips code
- 08-57400
- Website
- www .parachutecolorado .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Parachute
- Population
- 1390
- Area
- 4.324989
- Elevation
- 1552
- Official website
- www.parachutecolorado.com
- Image
- Parachute, Colorado.JPG
- Households
- 584
- Dialing code
- 970
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- Commons category
- Parachute, Colorado
- postal code
- 81635
- inception
- 1908-04-01
- water as percent of area
- 3.7019
- water area
- 0.160108
- per capita income
- 18282
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Encyclopedic overview
Parachute is a home rule municipality in Garfield County, Colorado, United States. The population was 1,390 at the 2020 census.
The town is the birthplace of Willard Libby, recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parachute” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.